Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 07:56:15 10/20/05
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Interesting, a thought on compression though. Why not use bz2? It's just as easy to implement as zip and has better compression. Josh > >I think, that my tbgenerator will be available soon. But it is useless without >data mining programms. >It is written in Assembler-586 (so the source code isn't interesting) and can be >run only on Windows. The technical article should be much more interesting, than >the source code. > >Now I have some statistics (for Dann Corbit's question): > >The total number of 3+4+5-man pawnless EGTs in yk-format = 130. >The total size of 130 EGTs = 1,473,493,622 bytes. >The total time of generation - less than 5 hours for my Celeron-1300 >computer. > >There are 100 3+4+5-man EGTs with pawns. For DTZ-metric compression is >much better in comparison with DTM-metric. >I already have written beta-version of pawn-generator. For knnkp the size of >EGT is about 2 times less than in Nalimov's format. > >I expect, that the total size off all 230 EGTs will be about 4 GB. > >And 2 important features are: >1. Now we are using zlib-library for compressing. Datacomp.exe gives better >compression. >2. For a data-mining program with 2-ply search only the smallest of wtm/btm >EGTs is needed. > >Yakov
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